The Sun. — London, England, 1864-11-16 00:00:00

1T AND tIOAteItOLILL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. ve ry trifling is the business that has been trans tublilekd la the money market this morning. The e are undoubtedly awaiting the result of the • 'nk Court th•morrow before they bring their bills into circalltion. They will lose nothing by this 4,% bccause should the redirltion not take place :41 . e broke it is thought, will not ask much if any nigher terms exceeding then are now required. Capital is ly plentiful ez Pect a l on ,and th ere i s good reason to A but g conti nuance of th e p resent abundance. £3,00 0 iu go l d was taken into th e B an k Voterday. I n the f ore i gn exchanges was a yesterday a ft ernoon getu and for tilers g e neral decli ne , there being a strong bills. Accounts from Paris mention the suspension there of m 1 , , " 8 " C. Robin and Co., bankers. A favourable .sia n The neieheet is expected. Temple failure has been announced of Messrs I osepli Nothing and Co., iron shipbuilders, of Blackwell. liabilities correct has yet trauspired respecting the i_ or assets. Messrs Elliot end Co., engaged : I , the China trade, have also suspended payment. qa esti regard to th e mate has in this case been made with debts of the firm. Two O'CLOCK. Beater 's the Paris Two this day, according to Met's telegrarn h o l ders h e quoted P. 05e. ' the 3 per Cent. Rentes were bait Yearly meeting to-day of the share d t o of the Bank of Queensland it was propose l ig h su p e7g i r vidend of 14s per share on the shares to the 31st Dec. last, and of 4s 9d per k ara en the 25 3 reserved shares issued since last P 4 31 ' b aing at th e rate of 74 per cent on the amount id u p, The r deb --ioglish St ock Market has presented a rather beep ressed appearance. A very good business has bee: negotiated, but it has been p,.. e d with sales. Quotations have shown a down d principally con. fo:rtd tendency. an Consols for money are 90f, :3, Th r he account, less the dividend, 89: I. The New It e ll es 441 Reduced Annuities are 882- i• June _ C ebt eqtler Bills, os die, to par, and India 5 Per . i ."., 106 i 2 . ...,, e , a - ket, a fir has prevailed in the Foreign Mar- T ar lla very little business has been transacted. . d 8 191: h 6 Per Cents., 1862, 711 i ; do. Consoir e k , 23 7 0 ; Mexican, 284 6; do. New, 26: I ; I; VoSP4eish Passive, 301 4 ; do. Certificates , Greek 62 ot. rlll a t lese, 47 i; and the Confederate L oan, ,‘ In th e I t :, : motbee„ i'lwaY Share Market the dealings . have 1 1114 u , very several extensive ,prices, however, in t ‘: e " exhibit rather more firmness. Grea t ort4r4„,alld Great Western have each improved s, 15 3 ,keetern 105, and North Eastern (Berwick) 1 43:4":atle Metropolitan have reached £2, Blackwal 1,4"' South Eastern 109. lireviec:a°reigu and Colonial lines are dull, at about till ‘ rates. Of it Q Z aild Miscellaneous shares show no ellan g e Ottenurtarice. Alliance realised 38 4 ; Co l % ' n ' 17 i ; London and County, 80; Discount ~,, rOritti ci ,, Imperial rio r "1 15 i ; London Financial, 233 244 ; and 4" Pitlktee, 91. OCIE• 1341T1811 F1;11'08-01111 O'CL 00v ith pe r., ANltz/vr ruzins. Der ~e lit. c o NewilDo 4,10 lleels t93(91 pe r ee ,1111t3Dee. 88 i I 1,,v,a 11'. Etedlleed 81 i I , t e, ceiit. 8 D o 5 ,Der,eellt• lan ' .. 1789.4. — Atit.tuti'eet.,k4ult. Jan. 1873 .... : — 1) 0 l o s e, 30 3'r ' s, expire sth Jan, 188 0 ' " 1) /18 eir st, April, 1885 ,zze:e(:t:: the?egrapl-si,),ug 1908*** - i .-- larcl2. _ June. Pang . 1) 1 0 r Bills, 41,000, 4& 31 per Cent. D o 45°° —__ D Eill 4100 a nd . 1200 .. Ti.)o 140,11/41t1Stici 61 per Ct. S c°° , 'Qin / a .i . r, t,nditt stoe,..`r,°„VZ4NNIENT SECURITIES. bo A .. 0., lui her r Cent., April 1874 ...= 1)0 r',,e,,,.",t ~ be 45re 'ellt. J illy, • 1870 . )3 0 4 %Int per Cezt., Uet 1888 -- bo liio eertifies.tesi . • — D 4ter Cent. (beferr..d3 .... Cent.) — a -- Do k Del Cent. be 5 De l Paper, 4 per Cent ...... 1)5 APer oat., Jan. 1872 1)„, V Per Cent., May, 1879 .......... -- 115 Per Cent., Aug. 1866 ho"(41(1841,000 tbzcler £l,OOO .................. -- . 41141,4:01tU1GN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK lirazititt 13044 C en t er Cent ............ be 4 1 4 6 Per .... _ ............. , 1.1t1,r °eat., 186'2-SS-60 ........ .4ten.., 0 1863 b 0.4 4Yre, G r Cent ............. C1ihih1e%6,44%. • pe ...... ._ . ..... "54/ -*.4 Ce.fi.t.. • ...................... _— ,„,, ~,... ~ ..... s,Nbie,t.,,t'k.;ellt Gent b,_,-'‘, e - Per ............... "'Ohbe 6 Pel. C ent. ............. -- D er , .......... a , 'ellt. is% ............. _ p, s 'c' 6 r,"„et_Cett., 1826 .............. lukdorr,l k•;ent, 1861 ........... •—• '84;t10 0 p "eW Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. bei.tovisorial Land Warrant ....... 14' R -11 7 Per Cent .......... 9, .. , ..eeorid IR 40 ................... 90 1 D (ireektOG t ondBs ..... .. ................... Dobp . Per Cnt., 1824-5, ex -Coupons.. • 01i0.,,N1111t ...................... etnne .......................... IfitiatZ°4!tt ........................ ittii? 1836'141P:1 Wsev. ................. _ tan an Per Cent.(l)4a;ern..ra. ....... asailwaY) D Do P.., _a Per Cent .................. ~. 1)0 -ii;ount ........................ 2.ith,f 6 h° ~‘ 1864.., ........... 21 )._ ttO'Ret t,ent• An ........ w. 7. ..b0 F r ;clip, £4p3 paid .. . .......... 1 1!"' _ d ''eerisilic4 B FrP • Ea , 25f 20c ........ di: ' New u rnperial 6 per Cent .......... 1)Do ,ranada ....................... by Jjef:rrt eede.ll. t• •• . • ................ Po 'get nWtnarti;sa,l24.plerliC.e.ct:tfaelkr.:l3B.l.i:l:B.6l ...... -11- Perlivil)° u° Aug., 1866.... 00 „all 4 # per Lent. ............. -- portubo 4 per Cent. (firibarr en) ... ....... 1)0 .44t3r Cent., 1862 .............. n.__lll!.t .................... Ibe V 4301111 e r Ceia t . , 1853 .......... 1t,.,) 0 3 „,„„ ,-,___•. . ! ~ • .. • .. ~..• •..•• • . • . , toe. A.',;,` il'iillt•) Itif%Gi '7, 9, '6O, 62;3.. 47k , Ri __ , Per • ...................... 471 i ro, ii,,.eoUlaelit•lB22, z St. ......... 1)o 2 t•• 1850 . 1860 ............... IDo 3 per Cent 1859 ................ 1),, 6 Per ceut, 1862 ................. 'Sardl.))o Asciart,xDsustpchaid...... ............................ 88861 inian 6 per Cent .................. Pm 8 _ 0 . eeewat ..................... ~u__ .i!. per ` eat ................... ceotin, . ................. """ t 0 t__ et,.err_.: .................. .';'‘l), ''.g.eu'ew,„..:uti eet ................. tip,'l,„ .haaisu.an ...................... ..i t:ce ive ........................ 13 ,4`)tail eeellt ... .................... 30 1 t Do - _ c• ot Coup not funded ...... Turi'w,,, sw3outit ........................ 14 1.;,(1,11) .4 per Cent. .................. •'' crl l 3 , 460 paid ......... Plll2 b ish G per Cent. 1854 .............. ........ . 1,0 Account .. Per c eut : .1.8.5; .................... ... !)0 6 bot ok,ceurl 410 A „st, ........................ 7.2: li o u zionds' . v, 6 her ( j..._, .....s. ................. .__ .i.)O .keeoulauttE, 11•164 ............... 71} b° 100 Bond .. .. ...................... 72i br, 1 8 63 b es 186?3 ............... •• 1,1)0- atteed, 4 per Cent... . . ...... 100 vbri BcriP• £lO paid ............ b 4). cjeZuiela 3 per .put. ................ .1-- •,..ccoutit ........................ b° o q, per Cent., 1862 • ................ 7):: b,, Zeeouenutt: 1.8.61 .................. 44. Atlttebividencia on the*.i:l..:l;e"sa.yabl.G in London BelDiftt, 5 pGr Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. .... Dot'on i4i per Cent x. 26f. ........ be 'A4I per Com., Ex. 12 Gull ........ Fr B ,, ', Per Cent. Certificates Cent............. . I t , i ea Itenteg 2 per ......... t ta u 6 ~, pe4Do _, Per Cent., 1 861, • Ex. 25 francs•• —„._ ecoulat ................... 1 .. . . (2/ Pifjl,ll4A Dollar Bonds, i per Ct.l..x. 4a. -out 5 per cent., Ex. ' 25f.•,•.. TWO 0 ceoLocx. co .„.,llßobi tfortev ......... 4 x d 4..,e 41,„_ ~ • . .... 8 ""iLt ............... Co-tion Market —This Da katiof al o cs 10AO - b. pen ed very steady. Sales, p ro b ably (Ie I :,rnINER 6-a-OITDELIVE. DELIVE RY. —The following te r am,i‘v: been appointed for holding assizes foirntcheewstienrt Thila r ,,, la be e n at the subjoined places :—W , h 1 km 4 Y, ueo. 1--llettford, Thursday, ,A,,,,, ~IldaY, Deo. 12--Maidstone, Thursday, Deo, 15— D ec . 8 _ che ros• 410 -', ‘Ve(lll"daY, Dec. 21, Mr 13:tron ChanUell will be Pteeldi ng Ado. SHARE MA RKETS, T his day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Share Railways. raid. Closing Business Prise. dens. 3ir., Wol., and Str. Val. slythe and Tyne. 3ristol and Exeter 3aledonian ...• 3ork and Bandon 3ornwall Do A A gets no di \ ti 116 p e.p an. has Do. B been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. llasg. and S. Western. ./reatEastern, Ord. sth Ditto A stook 84 E 6 129 130 129 30 Ditto EastAnglian st 3rcatNorthoi Scotland 4rcat Northern... . Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Irpl3n Great Westerp,Original Do Str Nal eiia. 6t()Ch Do. South Wales ! Do. West Mid. -Oxtoro NewportDp Do Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Biaekwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So•.th Western Ilan., Shef., dt Lincoln. Alaryport and Carlisle. Do f 5hare5........ Metropolitan Midland Do Birming. & Derby Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Slid /int ..• North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwio k Do,•G.N.E. puroha6c Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle...—. •• .• Do. Stook. /z Darling. Do do 1855-58 Do do isdG.6l ,North London Do New • Do New, 1861. North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stook Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union South Delon South Eastern Staines,Wok.,andWok Taff Vale.. ....—.... • • Do C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R 6 7 32 34 16 17 90 92 107 109 481 491 6i 7i .37 139 1511 157 too 131, 91 E 3 77 ;7i. 67 69 59 61 4t 46 91 101 1161 117 81 85 101 tOi 38 40 119} 1191 97 1 1 9 651 661 124 1234 137 1 3 74 105 107 E 4 L 5 24.4 i5l 112 113 69 70 1 1 102 37 F 8 10 11 8 9 120 122 L 1i p 73 80 10} 11 131 138 56 58 18 40 88 tBi 8 9 155 158 34 44 p 1,5 108 38 40 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways ►tlantio tit St Lawrence lom.,Baroda,t.Cent In , Gu. 5 per 0ent....•••- __ Do. E. Shares.. • itillalo and Laae Huroi Do. Preference • ,lulialo,Brant,&Godricl p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 18: Jo. do. July 1, 187 )o. do. June 1, 18, ;lcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lni 'apeTown I,c Dock Son Demerara 7 p.O. per. pf elastn. Bengal gu. b p. h:ast Indian. fin. 5 p. c Do. do. J Ext. ••• Grand Trunk of Cana,l}. Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent Du. Ist rrei. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred • Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d P•ef. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stook... Do. do. deferred...... '3t.ludtaPentn.g - ua. s p.c Do. Gua. 5 per cent.. Do. New gua. 5 p. a... it. South.of India (Lin, ,uaranteed 5 per cent. Do. 41 per cent—... Do — .. It. W. of Canada Share- Do. New .. . Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.. • . Indian Branch Limited iladras guar., 5 p. o. Do. 41 p. o. Extension Do. 44 d 0.... •. Do. Fifth Extension. klelb•Corp. 6 p. c. Bnd, Ilelb. & Hobson's Bay. gewßrunswiok at Cand, Class A. and B. N. Ri.C'dati po Ist pi bdt Soinde ...... _ „ . . Do. Delhi... ed P Do. do . ... ..2, t Do. Punjaub .... . Do. Indus. St. Flo,) co. Cloeing Price. Paid. 58 69 102 103 idis ip 5i li 84 0k c 4 93 8) 90 103 105 1031 I)4i 191 ZO} DO 92 70 73 60 62 61 66 55 57 53 55 46 50 29 31 27 29 103} 100 pr lip pr ip 100 101 91 01 14 It 91 fa 81 63 d 10! 103 94 C 6 88 90 9 Cl stock stock stock stock all 100 (100 100 < 2 ;1(0 'IOG 6 80 83 100} 101 i ICOi 1011 id ip 1011 Ib2i 95 97 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT Sp.:CURITIES. - .British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872.... 100 Do. do. 1883.... 100 Nh.iois.6 &J ui . 1877-81 too 08 10,2 Do. P.C. Feb. & Am_ 100 98 1 0 Do. 6p. o. Mar. & Sept 100 98 100 Do. Ip. c. Jan.&July. 10( 90 92 Do. 5 Inscribed stool. 100 88 92 'ape G.llope, 6 p o,187; 100 104 106 Do.Ap & Oct,. 1881 100 105 107 Do. 189, 100 106 108 )o. Jan. & July. 1891. 100 108 110 .;eylon, N0v.1863, 6 p 100 101 105 Do. 1878, do. 100 1( 9 112 11auritius 6 p.cent.lB73 00 103 106 Do. 1878 100 105 108 Do. 1882 100 ,07 110 catal Gov. 6 per cant.. 100 6 105 103 —4.13. G 6 p.c.Ja.&Jul) 100 96 99 1. S.W. Gov. 5 p 1,180. 100 97 99 Do. sp. c.,18/1 to Itl7. 100 95 07 Do. d0.,1888 dzupwdt 160 94 P 6 95 iew Zealand 6 p cent ' 100 103 106 \TOT& SCOUR Gov. 15 p. c sterling, 1875. lOO 100 102 •lueensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 103 105 104 i. Aus Gov. 6 p.c.li 68- 100 Do. 170 &upward 100 106 108 Vlc.tiov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 - Do. io 6 p.a. An.&Oot.. 100 1107 108 - BRITISH MINES. 2 arn tr.': an COll6Ol. Gold Chiverton . 3 6 7 Jitilura Amalgamated —3) 32 +even G. Cons. (Tavist 1 580 600 Drakewal:s.. ast Bassett (Illogan) .lO 50 52 East Caradon ..... 18 20 let Carla Brea 6l 7 East Grenville 2.7.0. 7 71 6 East Lovell 1V '1 Russui (Tavistk. s 13. , 41 41- lam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen 60. 6 8 4 Great Laxey, all 151 161 Areat South Tolgus.... 17. 14 2 i. Wheal Vor(llelstoh 40 33 35 34 irenville 7 8 54 6 .lerod's-Foot . e. 13 85 37 .1 ingston Downs 4.18.' 441 llargaret (Uny Lelan' 1 7 9 '1 arke Valley.. 4 44 4 , lyndv Iron Oro (Lim. 24 11 Nangiles• •.• •••• l9 24 16 qew Sevin 2ll (.0 70 •:ortli Down* 3 14 North Roskear.. 291 17 19 Basset(lllo.fau 3.1 , .6 11 2 , orth Wheal Crofty . 2.80 24 21 Prosper United...o, • 3i 31 •rovidence(Uny Lelni. 10 6.7 31 36 ionthCaradon(St.Cleer 14 520 540 ;Wheal Fran. (Illogau 18.15.1 33 36 Stray Park Vin Croft I 15 16 16/ Nest Basset (Illogan).. 11 8 9 A' Cr radon (Liskeard 5 6 West Chiverton West Sewn .Vheel Basset (Mogan 54 93 03 Wheal Buller( itedruth 10 12 14 Wheal Ludvott Wheal Mary Ann (Men 8 15 17 heal I:leton 584 200 205 Wheal Trelawney (Lis. 7 19 21 IVheal Union 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties. Ext. No. 1, 106 G re at Northern, 5 per cent, 113 Great Western, 4 per cent. irred 85 Great Western, 5 per cent. rd. pref., 103 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 4) per cent. pf., zzg,-. Ditto, 5 per cent. pf, 160 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Lancaster and Carlisle, 215 - FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San - Francisco gua. 7 per cent., 14) Great Luxembourg, 112 Recife and San Francisco (Urn.), gua. 7 per cent., 14 BANKS. Agra aiid Misterman's (lira.), Ditto, ne issd at 30 pm , calls paid in advance, 82 Alliance 19 8 Ditto, new, 374 8 Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 10 is pd , 231 Bank of Egypt, 30 294 Bank of London, 156 Chartered Bank of India. Australia. and China, 35 4) Hindustan, china, and Japan (Um.), Ditto, issued at 2 pm., 222 Imperial Bank (11m.).3 Ditto, new, 3) Imperial Ottoman, 174 Land Mortgag,c Bank of India, lira., 4) London Bank of Mexico and S. America, Jim., 5 London and Brazilian aim.). 46 5 London and County, 80 London Joint Stock, 48; London and 11 estminster, 99 8 Merchant Bank, lira , 25 Mercantile and Exchange, lira., 84 ; Ditto, new,t.B2 Oriental Bank Corporation. 594 Provincial Banking Corporation, Urn , 4) Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi. Urn., 111 Standard of British South Africa (lbw), 2C) Union of Australia, 511 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 18) 10 80... bay Gas, Ibu., 4 Credit Fonder and Mobillir of England, 71 Ditto (.£2), 1 - 1 5 D,lscount Corporation, 154 Hudson'sl:oi Imperial rsi:o:1 B I ec a ur y ci , as yptian Corr . and Trading, lira, 5) Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Rm., 62 ; home and ilonial asurance, 6 J Lo . nd rn on ati t O Innal : o t a u i M erca ntile t C . : j e t : 1. lira., 6 A i sso., International Financial Society, lira., 71 n i dCredit,lim.. r 44 244 3:1 'alt on to ne Assoc i a ti on , lira., National Discount North Brit' count Company, lim., 15 I I Pecan 11t i,h and Mercantile Insurance, lim., 192 ine (Insurance), 274 R eninsul a a io de Janel:d Oriental St eam , Smith Rni,, Fo City I m p rovemen t s , lint. 251 4 Thames and aim Co., lira., 3; • Warrant Fi n M ersey Marine (Insurance), him., anCe, 91 481 9} 773 i 604 60 45 100 116 i 4 804 1 794 I(sk 6 39f 1194 4 20 664 6 1231 1i 1371 i 112 k 13 70 1 1011 2} 3.14. st st st 50 20 Mar. 100 Sk 1 100 Stock Stook stook I 0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 @took stook stock stock so 10i 100 100 stook stook stook ES 7i !1.07i Business don( THE SUN, LONDOW, WEDNESDAY EVtiNIN POLICE INTEL LIGENCE,--This day. MARLBOROUGH• STREET. CUTTING AND WOUNDING WITH A KNIFE. - Amelia Reynolds was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with unlawfully cutting and wounding James Norton, a bootoloser, of 2, Leicester-buildings, Leicester-square. sergeant Horsey, 6 C, said that at a quarter to ten last night he was called to 2, Leicester-buildings, and in a room on the first floor he saw a man with the right side of his shirt saturated with blood. The man, whose name was Norton, said "Look here," at the same time pointing to his shirt. lie (Horsey) asked Norton who had done it, and he said " That woman," meaning the prisoner. He asked him what she had done it with, and he said 'with a sharp knife.' The prisoner then said," I did it, and will serve him a - sight worse." The prisoner afterwards gave him a knife (a sharp ro'nted shoemaker's knife), at the same time say ing, that's the knife I did it with." Norton then said he felt very weak from the loss of blood, and a constable, by his directions, took him to the Charing cross Hospital. Norton said ha would attend the Court that morning, but had not done so. Tho surgeon at the hospital last night said he could not tell the result of the wound. Mr Tyrwhitt asked what Norton was, and the sergeant said he was a boot-closer. He only knew the prisoner as a prostitute. He believed she lived with Norton. The prisoner said she was using the knife to cut her sup per, when Norton came in the worse for liquor and knocked bar down. A sci.fil .3 took place between them, and some how Norton got wounded in the side. Norton was con stantly ill-using her or knocking her about. Sergeant Horsey handed Mr Tyrwhitt the following cer- tificate which he received from the hospital.— " James Norton was brought here with a stab in his right Ioin,—JAMES G. MACYZINLAY, house surgeon, Char ing -cross Hospital, Nov. 16." Mr Tyrwhitt said he should remand the prisoner till Monday next, but if Norton came she could be brought be fore him again. _ _ The prisoner was then remanded. WESTMINSTER. Dennis Harrington, a labourer of Herculean proportions, was charged with a most disgraceful outrage. Ellen Sullivan, a very aged and infirm person, said she lived at 2. Bull's-head-court, Orchard-street, Westminster, and the prisoner was her son-in-law, who lived with her, Yesterday afternoon he came home and beat her, and dragged her about and kicked her. He came home under the influence of liquor, and asked her for some fish. She reminded him that be had before eaten it, and he then com menced his ill treatment. He seized her by the hair of tho head, struck her several times, and then kicked her. Mr Arnold—How old are you ? Prosecutor—Four score and two. Mr Arnold—lt is a great age. What was done after this ? The police—She was taken to the hospital, and he was afterwards apprehendad. Prisoner—l never touched her. She fell down and hurt herself. I asked for something to eat, and she said she had not got anything, and that's how it happened. I never touched her. _ Mr Arnold—Let the persons in the house, if any are here, stand forward, A woman was sworn who:evidently endeavoured to screen he accused, and pretended she knew nothing about it. The police said that this woman had declared to them that she had heard the old woman's cries for help. Witness admitted having heard her cries of murder. • . A seoond woman was put into the witness box, and al though not so unwilling to give evidence as the other, there was some reservation. She heard the old woman cry " Murder" two or three times, and also heard the prisoner use violent threats to her. There was a great noise in their room at the time she cried out. Police constable Edward Arnold, 247 B, said he was called to Buckshead-court, and found prosecutrix bleeding —blood was streaming down her face from one of her eyes. Prisoner then got away, but was taken in the course of the afternoon, when he used violent threats to the old woman declaring what he would do to her when he got at liberty. Mr Arnold—This brutal assault is very clearly proved, although there is a marked desire on the part of the wit nesses to conceal the facts. Nothing can be more disgrace ful than a powerful man like you assaulting this aged wo man. You are committed for six months to hard labour is the House of Correction, and must find bail for your good behaviour six months longer. Public Works in the Manufacturing Districts. That the operation of the Public Works Acts in the manufacturing districts should be watched with a solicitude akin to suspicion is no more than natural. In other countries the expedient is common enough, but not so with ourselves. We consider that such an employment of public money is necessarily open to serious abuse, and if the emergency had not been extreme, the occasion unparalleled, and the obli gation overruling, the Act would never have been passed. However, while Lancashire did its own part in the relief of the distress produced by the Cotton Famine, and while the public at large did the same, the contribution of the State itself to the work Gi ch ar it y was r epresented by an advance of nearly two millio ns ster li ng for the creation of arti ficial employment in the districts all cted. By the aid of this money, furnishel on easy teams, each township or cor poration might undertake public works which would not have been undertaken otherwise, so that the demand for labour thus produced might provide with fresh earnings those operatives whose ordinary wages had ceased with the stoppage of the cotton mills. There was little or no restriction attached to the proposed expenditure. save that the works undertaken should be of public utility, bat it was an obvious condition of the bargain that the money thus furnished should be applied as far as possible in promotion of its immediate object—the employ ment of the factory operatives thrown out of work. Of course as these operatives brought no avail able skill to their new labour it was inevitable that skilled workmen from other trades should be employed to guide them, but it was understood that in the selection and exe cution of the works to be undertaken preference should be given to such designs as would employ unskilled labour in the greatest proportion. _ We can now lay betoro the public two pieces of authen. tic information on this subject. We can tell them exactly what has been done in the aggregate, and we can let them see in detail what was actually going on in the last week of last month. The total amount of money set apart for the purposes in question was £1,850,000, and of this as much as £1,796,642 has been already ap propriated, although the greater portion of it remains still to be advanced by future instalments. The un appropriated balance, therefore, is but little over £50,000, and applications more than sufficient to absorb this sum have teen made. Altogether, of the £1,850,000 originally available, rather less than the £850,000 has been already expended, and rather more than the £1,000,000, though it is all bespoken, remains for expenditure still. Now, what was this fund doing for us in the week taken at hazard, and how did it contribute to the mitigation of Lancashire distress F Well, we are told that, including the pro ceedings in some eighty different places, it provided 4,002 factory operatives with wages, and most readers will probably be surprised at the smallness of the pro duct. In fact, the product certainly is small, though a good deal has to be added in the way of explanation. To begin with, these figures must not be measured with those which per:odically indicate the recipients of relief. When we report that 150,000 persons were relieved in a particular week the number represents all the men, women, and children of their several families; when we say that 4,000 factory operatives found employment under the Public Works Act we speak of able-bodied men alone, each one of whom supports by the wages of this employment the remainder of the family. Thus adopting the usual principle of computation, these works provided 16,000 persons with the means of living. Then, there were supposed to be 2,000 more employed in getting stone and other materials for the works in progress, which would add 8,000 to the former numbers, Lastly, there were 2,422 skilled labourers employed in the direction and instruction of the others, which would give 8,000 more, so that between 30,000 and 40,000 persons were finding sup port through this advance of public money. It is true that the engagement of skilled labourers would not directly diminish the pressure on the factory operatives, but still their earnings were spent in the district to the advantage of the small shopkeepers and the general benefit of the neighbourhood. One other circumstance, too, should be mentioned. Mr Itawlinson, the superintendent engineer, informs us that in some places, and especially in Black burn, the factory operatives who had taken service in these works, and acquired a knowledge of their new em ployment. made a point of returning themselves as " skilled labourers," being unwilling to lose the benefit derivable from the capacity which they had gained. Nevertheless, it will doubtless be considered that all this money should have employed a greater number of tho dis tressed operatives, and that conclusion will be confirmed by a comparison of the proceedings and results at different points of the distressed districts. We subjoin, for example, the total amounts borrowed according to this return in the seven instances where the demands upon the fund have been greatest, and the numbers of factory operatives em ployed respectively at the places in question during the last week in October : Number L Employed Ashton-under-Lyne 125,032 .. 150 Blackburn Bolton Manchester Oidham Stalybridge Prestoa - - • With these figures lot us now contrast the fol. lowing : Number Employed. Bury „r 45,259 .. 237 Glossop 36,401 .. 392 Hurst S. ockport Wigan Now, if these figures are added up, it will be seen that seven towns, with funds amounting to £842,518. were em ploying only 1,14) factory operatives, whereas five others, with only £173,106 between them, were keeping 1,140 operatives at work. The ease of Manchester in particular is remarkable, all the more so, indeed, as that city has actually received for expenditure the greater part of its very large share of money, whereas in other cases, though the loan obtained may have been considerable, the sum hitherto applied has been comparatively small, The contrasts above presented arise, no doubt, from a great variety of circumstances. In the first instance, the nature of the works u n d erta k en probably governed the' demand for labour, skilled and ue skilled, and it is easy to understand that the selection of these works was not always entirely at the discretion of the authorities. It was stipulated that they should bo in all cases of public utility, or, in other words, that they should be wanted for the use and benefit, of th e peop l e , a nd if, therefore, certain works were not re qui re l , they could no t be undertaken, whatever promise of empl oymen t the prospect might offer. We.infex, however, f rom Mr Raw li nson 's report that some local authorities have, "i n the i r se l e ction of works, thought as much as sanitary improvement as of the amount of em ployment uhich would be afbrded to indigent factory ope ratives," for that gentleman distinctly says that if they have done so "it can hardly be deemed a matter of regret." We feel by no means certain of that conclusion. The first object of the public grant was certainly the relief of Lanca shire distress by the artificial employment of Lancashire o p e ratives, and this, We thi n k s h o uld have had precedence of all other objects, h owever ' d es irable they may have a ppeared in themselv es . Manchester, it see ms,has applied u pwards of £lOO,OOO to th e water suPPIY of the town—its expenditure, indeed, having been almost exclusively de voted to that purpose. The purpose in itself may be un• exceptionable, but if it has not contributed to the relief of the unemployed cotton hands, we think the money might have been better invested, and that Manchester should either have done more or borrowed less. It will be little satisfaction to reflect on the million of money still available for the relief of the distressed districts during the impending winter unless we can believ e the classes distressed will get the benefit of the expenditur e . W e t r ust this will be the asas f saurr a a e ne practicabl e ; but we should be glad of some e can d er i ve , on the whole, from f r om tht return before u.s. — Thnes. better case, THAMES. DANGER ON THE ROAD.—James Wilke, a tall, elderly man, was brought before Mr Paget oharged with being drunk while in charge of a waggon and four houses in the Bow-road, yesterday afternoon. The case was clearly made out against the prisoner. Police-constable 301 1 said the prisoner was seated on the box of the waggon. The reins of the horses were thrown on one side, and the animals were proceeding slowly along the road towards Essex. The prisoner, who was very drunk, w s quite incapable of managing the horses, They were without any control at all, The prisoner said he was very sorry for being in the state in which he was discovered. Ho had drunk a little too much. As to the horses, they could take care of themselves. He drove without reins yesterday. Mr Paget—Then there was great danger to passengers crossing the road ? The Prisoner—There was no fear of that. • Mr Paget—There was great danger. If any woman or child had been crossing the road the horses would have gone over them. There was no check. The prisoner said his duties were very heavy. He was on duty 25 hours, from 9 o'clock one night until 11 the next, taking animal charcoal between Irish-row, East Ham, and the sugar baker's in Whitechapel. Mr Paget—l consider this a v€ry serious offence. drunken man driving four horses and a heavy waggon along a public road without reins. Ycu are fined 20s, and in default 14 days' imprisonment. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. Our market to-day was but moderately supplied with home-grown wheat. For selected parcels there was a steady demand at full prices; otherwise, the trade was dull at about Monday's currency. With most descriptions of foreign wheAt the market was well supplied. Generally speaking, sales proceeded slowly at the rates current on Monday. Floating cargoes of grain moved oil slowly at previous quotations. The market was seasonably well supplied with barley. Good and fine malting.qualities were in steady request at full prices, but for inferior produce the demand was very in active, at late rates. In malt, a very moderate business was transacted, on former terms. There was a good supply of oats on the stands. Generally speaking, the trade was firm, and Monday's prices wore well supported. Beans met a slow sale, at late rates. For peas, the trade was quiet, at previous quotations. In flour, only a moderate business was transacted, at late prices. ARRIVALS THIS VILER. Wheat. Barley, Malt. Oats. Flour. English 4lO 1 20 2 , 260 600 Irish Foreign 3,760 1,560 11,370 40 sks brls BOROUGH HOP. Our markot is very firm, and alt dean iptions of hops fully supported previous rates. WIIITECII.A.PEL. •• The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the trade rules firm, at the annexed rates : Beef, from 2s Od to 4s 6d ; mutton, Se 4d to 5s Od ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s Od; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 10d per Blbs by the carcase. TILE DANISH WOUNDED,—The committee which at the outset of the Danish war was formed, under the pre sidency of the Marquis of Clanricarde, to collect funds for the relief of the sick and wounded of the Danish army, have just remitted a final sum of £124 15s Gd to the Danish committee at Copenhagen, making a total of nearly £9,200 collected in England, and remittted to Denmark for this benevolent object. The collection of such a sum for the relief of the wounded of a foreign army is no slight evi dence of the sympathy felt in England for the Danes in their gallant struggle against an overwhelming force. Ea !LAMBERT.-"Mr Lambert will see company at his house, Number Fifty-three, Piccadilly, next Albany, nearly opposite St James's Church, from eleven to five o'c i .ock. Tickets of admission. One Shilling each!' He was one of the lions of London for a time. His exhibition room (what a famous place Piccadilly has been for giants, dwarfs, lean people, and fat people!) was visited by the high born as well as by the vulgar; and he appears to have been respected as well as looked at, for he was a kind and sensible man, He was always shocked at the idea of any personal indignity or insult being cast upon him on the ground of his bulk by coarse minded persons; and this known susceptibility was generally respected. Mr Lam bert was healthy in spite of his obesity. Some years earlier, when he was thrice the weight of an ordinary man, he could carry a weight of 5001 b. During the last fifteen years of his life he drank nothing but water, and was usually cheer ful and good-humoured. His bulk increased year by year, until, shortly before his death, in 1809, he attained the unprecedented weight of 739. b. (nearly 53 stones). His coffin was 76 inches long by 52 inches wide, and con tained 112 square feet of elm. The coffin was regularly built upon axles and wheels ; and not only-the window, but also the side of a room, had to be taken down, to afford a passage for the bulky man. The wheeled coffin was drawn to St. Martin's churchyard, where a gra dual descent was made to the grave by excavating th e ground. We remember seeing, a few years ago, at a boot maker's in the City, a pair of shoes, the counterpart of some which had been made for the weighty Daniel by a former proprietor of the shop; they were, as Thomas Hood said of a stage-coachman's great coat, Too broad to bo conceived by any narrow mind, Dtelcens's "All the Year SHIPPING-IRIS DAY. LONDON, Nov. IG.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly; moderate breeze and fi la , weather, but a little cloudy. Arrived—Wellesley, from Quebec. 4 —Wind NT NEWPORT, Nov. 1 . —.E.—Arrived—Elpis, 14.--W ind s.w. from Bristol for Pernambuco. Sailed — R,. Lamont. for PLYMOUTH, Nov. 15.—Wind ly._ Mauritius. HOLYHEAD, Nov. 1 5 • r i5t.t,...... -_Arrived Arrived—Thomas Lee, from Liverpool for Vancouver's Island, towed in, being dismasted. from Demerara. E.—Arrived—Alma, C CA R R " D K IF I F IA , S .W , —A•rrived—Jeune Nantes, from St Vincent. . VENNo,vN. 15.—Wind0Y. QtrzErisTowx, Nov. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—l3er rania, from Cardiff for Genoa. (BY IiAGNETIC TE LEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Nuv. 15—Mermaid, from Guernsey—Gondala, from Demerara. A Nov. 16 _Fideo, f rom O dessa—Forest Faity, fromuDiveendia. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Sailed—Glenoaros, for CLl:na-13t1tend Will, for Hong Kong—and others, for the Woatward. has just paid a success f u l v i s it t o A swindler of showy appearance, apparently on the cm 6 of one o f t h e par i s h es in about o g 2 n 6 e y . e a j r i s e w f a a i g t e o d , that town, and announced himself as the nephew of the Grand Vicar of the See et Marseilles, at the same time presenting a letter of recommendation, bearing an imitation of the signature of that ecclesiastic, and of the seal of the bishopric. Ho then requested the cure to accompany him to a banking house of the town to obtain payment of a cheque for 3,750 f, signed by a well-known firm at Marseilles. The venerable priest consented, and the cash was obtained, but both draft end letter have sinee, proved to be oily fOrgerifs. lOft al 20} 301 1031 41 NOVEMBER 16, 1864. The Execution of Muller. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Your report in to-day's paper of the execu• tion of Franz Muller is entirely correct, .with the one exception that the unhappy man declared he was innocent not while, but before, the Sacrament was being administered to him. Soon after entering his cell on the last morning I asked Muller again whether he was guilty of this murder. He denied it. I then said, " Muller, the moments are precious; we must turn our minds wholly to God; I shall question you no more about this, but my last words to you will be Are you innocent P' " He remained silent for a minute or two, but presently exclaimed t his eyes full of tears, and clasping his arms round my neck, " Do not forsake me ; stop with me to-the last." I was so struck with this that I consulted with Mr Jonas, the ,Governor, whether the final question should ba put in the pinioning room or on the scaffold. We decided for the latter. The manner iu which this crime was committed will never bo known. My own firm conviction, de rived from the closest personal intercourse with the prisoner, is that murder was not premeditated ; but that Muller, in want of money, and yielding to a sudden temptation, attacked his victim for the sake of robbery, and finished, in the despair of the mo ment, by killing him either with his own hands, or by causing his fall from the railway carriage. I recollect particularly on one occasion, when I repre sented to him the crime as likely to have taken place in this way, he answered not, but gazed at me intently, and impressed me at the time with the belief of the correctness of my supposition. I have generally observed that Muller was most earnest in protesting his innocence when directly charged with murder. Statements such as having never been in a North London Railway train he made only in answer to pointed questions, and, it seems, in order not to contradict previous similar assertions. His manner—simple, gentle, and apparently open and truthful—was such as easily to deceive even ex perienced observers, and the wonderful self-possese sion of this most remarkable character was never more strikingly manifested than by his fencing with words, the rope round his neck and the white cap over his face, when about to confess his quilt at the very last moment. His last two hours were all peace and prayer. He repeated what he had said before, "If I had died six months ago I should have been lost, but now I entirely rely on God's mercy ; I have done with the world and am ready to leave it." He stated all recent events haerat times appeared to him like a vision or a dream, adding that he had passed in solitude through many terrible hours since his arrest in America. He was full of meekness and resignation, forgave freely all his enemies, re quested me to write to his father that he should die a happy and repentant man, and spoke in terms of affection and gratitude of the prison officials, par ticularly of the Rev. Mr Davis and Mr Jonas, the Governor. And I desire to conform to his sentiments towards all the officers of the prilon, and cannot sufficiently empress my admiration of the firmness, combined with touching kindness and tenderness of heart, with which Mr Jonas fulfilled his most try ing functions. It is a blessing indeed to have such officers in such a prison. In conclusion, I feel constrained respectfully to call the attention of the proper authorities to what seems to me a cruel and crying evil in Newgate. Again and again on Monday morning in those last solemn moments our prayers were interrupted by the savage yells of the multitude assembled to wit ness the execution. Cannot the condemned cells be placed in a position where the noise of hammering and the shouts of the mob do not reach the ears of the miserable culprit ? I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant, LOUIS CAPEL, D D., Minister of the German Lutheran Church, Alie-street, Goodman's-fields. 4, Primrose-hill-road, Nov. 15. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Errt,--By the gasping, sobbing gratification that 11 ,- ,s so generally followed ➢fuller's supposed confession, I may fairly conclude that very many others besides myself either felt that ho was innocent, or that (as the Scotch term it) his crime was "not proven," and that there really was a doubt about it, which ought, and perhaps would, have been given in Muller's favour, but for a sort of panic all society had imbibed from the nature of the deed—a murder—and an escape against time—in a railway first-class carriage, with only two minutes or so to do it all in. Your paper and the Times appear to have given the most probable version of thie confession. For myself, Sir, I do not believe in the confession of Muller. Ydo not mean that Dr Cappel mis-stated, but only misunderstood what Muller actually said just as the drop fell. Muller had said, in reply to Dr Cappel, "God Almighty knows what I have done." The doctor's next question was— " lle knows if you have done this particular deed ?" and he makes Muller say— " Yes, I have done it." Now, I consider Muller's answer more likely to have been —" Yes, if I have done it ;" meaning, evidently, that " of course God knows whether I did the murder or not." And this is consistent with all that had gone before, especially the declaring his innocence after he had taken the Sacra ment. The point, however, that I wish further to call your at tention to, on behalf of all eondemned felons in future, is, that Muller, being c3nvicted on a Saturday night, was hanged in just a fortnight and a day, because the three Sundays elapsed in that period. Had his trial been carried over to the Monday, he would have had three week for re pentance. I trust you will animadvert on the above incon sistency, or haste ; and that by no possibility in future such a boon should be shortened by a mere chance, as occurred with this most unfortunate foreigner. I remain, Sir, one of your constant readers, 15th November, 1861. We beg to direct the attention of our correspoE. dent " W." to the following conversation that took place between Dr Capel and the convict on the morning of the execution _ _ . ..., The final asseverations and confession of the unhappy man who was executed on Monday have been reported with some slight variation of phrase, although the import was in most instances the same. The actual words made use of are subjoined in the original Gorman. One hour before the time appointed for the execution the Rev. Dr Cappel in the con demned cell exhorted Muller to confess to him if he had been guilty of the crime for which he was so soon to suffer. The prisoner was si'ent, but in a moment, overwrought, ho laid his head upon Dr Cappel's shoulder, weeping bitterly. He only said, " Oh, don't forsake me I Stay with me to the last I" Hitherto the declarations of the prisoner had been to maintain the plea that he was innocent, and inferentially, though never directly, to deny his commission of the crime. The appeal he now made, and his abstention from any pre varication or assertion, gave Dr Cappel a hope that he would at last confess, and he determined that his final ap , peal should be oa the scaffold. When he stood under the gallows with Bluffer, the Rev. Mr Davis being with him, he spoke as follows : Dr Cappel—Muller, in wenigen Augenblicken stehen Sie vor Gott; ich frage Sic noohmals, and zum letzen male, Sind Sio schuldig oder unschuldig? Muller—lch bin unschuldig. Dr Cappel—Sio sind unschuldig P Muller—Gott Weiss was ich gethan babe. Dr Cappel—Gott weiss was Sio gethan haben. Weiss er auch dass Sie dies Verbrechen gethan haben ? Muller— Ja ; ich babe es gethan. The words translated are as follows : Dr Cappel said— Muller, in a few moments you will stand before God. I ask you again, and for the last time, are you guilty or not guilty P Muller answered—Not guilty. Dr Cappel—You are NOT guilty ? Muller—God knows what I have done. Dr Cappol—God knows what you have done. Does He also know that you have committed this crime ? Muller— Yes ; I have done it. There is a strong probability that if the executioner had not been so terribly prompt in withdrawing the fatal bolt, Muller would have made a much fuller confession, and that his tenacious hope of reprieve having at last given way, ho would perhars have made some statement as to how the struggle took place which resulted in the murder. It was only by the vary narrowest chance the culprit had time to say what he did; for the important words were almost choked in the uttering. It is usual at executions for all those whose painful duty takes them actually upon the scaffold to retire before the executioner drain the bolt of the drop; but on Monday morning Caloraft actually per formed this task while the two ministering clergymen—the Rev. Mr Davis, tho ordinary of Newgate, and the Rev. Dr Cappel—were standing close beside the unhappy convict, listening with intense anxiety to the hurried words which bore the scant but conclusive confession. After Caloraft had drawn down the cap, tied the rope round bluffer's neck, and secured his lags with the usual strap, all which he did with remarkable quickness, he suddenly loft the platform. The two clergymen, who were standing im mediately im front and as near to the prisoner as possiblet were not able to converse with him during the time the hangman was engaged in his office ; but when these terrible details were finished the Rev. Dr Cappel spoke to Muller with the greatest solemnity, and with peculiar earnestness of tone. The spectators who were near the gallows appeared to be greatly impressed. Only the little group under the beam could hear what words were uttered. It appeared as though the last counsel of the German minister was received by Muller with an intensity of feeling. Dr Cappel bent for ward with outstretched hands, and with his face close to that of the unhappy criminal. Through the white cap, which hardly came even with the jaw, the lips could be seen mov ing, and while Dr Cappel was thus listening the drop fell, with a suddenness that must have greatly startled that gen tleman. Dr Cappel was actually leaning forward and listen ing, when the body went down. The two clergymen were left or the moment in dreadful contigui'y to the dying man. Phrenological Examination of Muller's Head from the Cast. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, SHREWSBURY RACES—TiIIs DAY, IZY ELECTLIC TELEGRAPH. ISlATcu.—Tarra gona beat East Sheen, ACTON BURNEL STAKES. Antoinette Hurrah • 2 Princess Dagmar ............................ CALDECOT lIANDICAP. Moulsey My Mary . ....... Five ran. •••••• 2 HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Lad y Bohnn Nell Digby Five ran. INIONKMOOII HANDICAP. Dawdle 1 •••••••• To mfool .ry Faith Six ran. The disputei hurdle race hay not yet been decided—the case will be reopened at Mr NV , ..athelby's Lace. The Confede rate Generals. The accompany extracts are from a letter, dated Sept. 26, written by an English gentleman who has been in the South during a great portion of the war ; Lee himself is worn and anxious, but as cheerful to the eye and as indomit eble as ever. I assure you Lee is more than ever a sight for gods and men. The same tranquil mo desty, utter absence of vanity, egotism, or self-seeking, and determination to spend and be spent in discharge of his duty. It is certainly one of the most beautiful characters I ever read of—certainly the most beautiful that I ever en countered. I am sorry to say that poor Longstreet is still suffering greatly. The ball went in at the base of his throat, just below Adam's apple, and cut its way out through the right shoulder, just below the clavicle. As it passed out it cut the nerves of sensation and motion of the right arm. The arm still remains paralysed as far as motion is concerned, but the nerves of sensation are somehow involved in the cicatrix, and are morbidly and acutely sensitive and irritable. Ho has taken oceans of morphine and is greatly reduced, but I fear the pain remains as great as ever. It is with pleasure we make known to our readers that a gentleman, W. 11. C. Nation, Esq., of Ken. sington, has generously presented to the Royal Dramatic College the liberal sum of 50 guineas in aid of the funds of that excellent and deserving institution. PLYMOUTH, Tuesday.—The brig Florence Nights ingale, 248 tons, Captain J. E. Winslow, belonging to Mr Paul, of Lynn, was off this port yesterday with 7,600 hides and 120 pipes of tallow. She left Montevideo, Sept, 10, crossed the line Oct. 5, and spoke Sept. 7, lat. 13 10 S., long. 28 19 W., the Hamburg bark Orleans, and lat. 18 S., long. 28 18 W., a British barque with signals V. P. S. K., Oct. 2, lat 7 47 8., long. 23 12 W., the British bark Cupido; and Oct. 5, lat, 0 18 N., long. 28 13 'N., the British brig Anne—all bound to the southward. The brig Ruben Glough left Montevideo Sept. 1; the bark Hound, of Whitehaven expected to leave on the 17th. FEDERAL DEBT.—The official statement of the public debt represents that the amount outstanding was in creased by more than 61,000,000 dole. in the month of October. The unpaid requisitions are stated at 37,000,000 dols., and the amount in the Treasury at nearly 27,000,000 dole. The inauguration of the statue of Daubenton took place the day before yesterday at the Jardin d'Ac elima'ation in the Buie de Boulogne, tut the state of the weather operated sadly against the fete. The statue has been placed in front of the large aviary, near which tri bunes ornamented with flip were erected for the members of the Society and for the representatives of great scientific bodies. Among the persons present were M. Massy—Count d'Epremesnil, Secretary General of the Society—M. Rare de Lavison, Director of the Garden—Marshal de Santa Cruz—M. Stanislas Julien, Member of the Inatitute, and several other scientific notabilities. The ceremony was pre sided over by M. de Quatrefugos, Vice President of the society, who delivered an address appropriate to the occa sion. M. Richard (du Central) next spoke, and pointed out all the practical results which had already been obtained from the labours of M. Daubenton, That illustricus ser vant, he said, born at Montbard (Coto d'Or), was the first who acclimatised Merino sheep in Franco, a fact which had materially improved the manufacture of cloth in the country. Ile was also the first to apply the science of comparative anatomy in the determination of fossil bodies, It was however more particularly for the services he had rendered to agriculture and to manufactures that his statue merited a place in the Jardin d'Acclimatation. After M. Viard, mayor of Montbard, had spoken in high praise of Daubenton, and of the valuable services which he had rendered to the country, the meeting broke up. ALTERATION OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE MAlLS.—Commencing with December next, the direct mail packets for the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, and Ascension, will, in future, leave Devonport on the morning of the 10th of each month, on the arrival of the mail despatched from London on the previous evening. When, however, the 9th of the month falls on Sunday, the mailiewill not be despatched from London until the even ing of the 10th, and the packet will not sail until the morn ing of the 11th. These packets will, henceforth, go on from the Gape to Mauritius, calling at Natal, and any letters, &re, for Mauritius, specially directed via the Cape of Good Hope, will be sent by that route. Such letters, &0., will be liable to the same postage as when forwarded via Southampton and Suez, By command of the Postmas ter-General, General Post-office, Nov. 16, 1861. THE CONFEDERATE CRUISER SHENANDOAH (LATE SEA KING).—We received a letter yesterday from part of the crew of the Sea King, who returned to England in the African steamer Calabar. The men state that the Sea King is now called the Shenandoah, and that Captain Semmes was pointed to them as the captain of the vessel. They state also that the Sea King hoisted the Confederate flag, and that one was offered £lB per month to join the ship. After making inquiries we find that the 36 men who returned in the Calabar hold discharges marked V. G. (very good). Many of the _men are members of the Total Absti nence Society, and therefore the charges of drunkenness cannot apply to them. We understand several of the crew of the Laurel were discharged for intemperance ; but we believe the crew of the Sea King behaved themselves cre ditably in every respect. The men who have returned have been well treated, end have been recompensed for their services. The whole of the 36 men who returned in the Calabar did not go cut in the Laurel, but shipped on board. the Sea King from London.—Liverpool paper. SINGULAR APPLICATION FORA SUMMONS AGAINST THE CHAIRMAN OF THE iiRIGHTON RAILWAY COM% rA.NY.—Yesterday at the Southwark Police-court, soon after Mr Woolrych had taken his seat and disposed of a few of the night charges, a gentleman entered the court, and having handed his card to one or the ushers, stated that he was a shareholder of the Brighton Railway Com pany, and ho wished his worship to grant him a summons . against a gentleman connected with the railway for getting out of one of the carriages while the train was in motion. Mr Woolrych said an application had better be made by ono ' of the officers of the company in the regular way. Appli ' cant—They will not stir in the matter, sir; the offender is too great a man for them to interfere with. Mr Wool rych—Have you complained to the officers of the railway ? Applicant—Oh yes, sir; I told them of it, and they laughed at me, but I am determined to proceed in the matter as far as the law allows me. Mr Woolrych—Who is the great ' offender? Applicant—Mr Leo Schuster, the chairman of the company. When I mentioned the circumstance to one of the officers of the company, the man said, " Oh, that's nothing ; Mr Schuster nearly always gets out of the car riage while the train is in motion." Mr Woolrych—When ' did the offence occur ? Applicant—On the 10th of last ' month, and the reason I have not applied for a summons ' before is, that I have been in the country and have been making inquiries how I should proceed. Mr Woolrych— The time is so distant tha t I do not think it would be proper to grant a summons. You ehould have applied before. The applicant said he thought the time did not matter. Last year he, unfortunately, was summoned by the company for a similar offence after the lapse of a month, and he was fined 405., which he paid. The directors had not treated him so gentlemanly as t o li f ee t • h o e m u c g o ht, p t a h n e y refore he considered that he had a right to summon the chairman for breaking the law. Mr Woalrych —Then you proceed rather vindictively ? Applicant—No, sir; but I think that what is good fur the goose is good for the gander. (Laughter.) Mr Woolrych—l suppose you mean by that you have been the goose ? Applicant—Well, perhaps I do ; but you will notwithstanding grant me a summons. Mr Woolrych— You may take your summons, sir. The following is an extract from a letter received from Messrs. 11, L. Bolton and Co., La Guayra, dated the 25th Oztober, by the General Credit a nd Finance Company of London (Limited), in refe• renco to the Vent zuelan L0an,1864 ,—" We enclose the following statement of duties collected—No.l2, from Puerto Cabello, 48 dole. 64c—No. 18, from ditto, 150 dols.—No. 14, from ditto, 310 dols, 40c— No. 6, from La Guayra, 73 dols. 62c—total, 4C•I dols. 16e. The complete exhaustion of stocks of produce of every description in our markets ac counts for the small amount of duties collected, which is always the case during the last three months of the year. Aire are pleased to be able to communicate 10 you the news just received of a peaceful arrangement concluded with the province of Guyana, lately threatenirg sccesicn. The next crops of cufft , e cud cotton will not brgin to r rrive to market before the middle of January, as great drought has much retarded it, but prospects tit° held out twat produce will be ahuudaut," TO THE EDITOR OF THE SI7N. Dr. Donovan bogs to inform the Editor of 17ic Sun that he received special permission from Sheriff Dakin to take a cast of the bead of Muller after his execution. To Dr. Donovan the cast has no direct petuniary value, for he does riot sell casts. During the last 25 years Dr. Donovan has only in two instances been refused permission to take such casts, of which there is a collection preserbed at New gate. The cast of Muller, which Dr. Donovan sends for the Editor's inspection, shows the mark of the rope and its genuineness. Nov: 14, 1864. C. DONOVAN, Ph. D. If Muller's confession at the last moment had not set the question of his guilt at rest, the doubt would not have been wholly removed by such testimony as is offered to the phrenological eye by his cerebral organisation. For though there are ugly points in the development, the head, as a whole, is by no means of the low criminal type. Wish such heads as those of the burkers—Burke,' Hare, Williams, Bishop ; or the heads of Rush, Palmer, Mrs. Manning ; or those of the class feeble, such as Bellingham, Stevenson, Taylor of Manchester, and Mullins—this head of Muller refuses to be classed. Still the head, seen by the experienced eye, has repulsive features. Had not facts borne so stongly on the side of guilt, the head would admit of serious doubts. It is certainly indicative of deep craftiness—the most unsafe of characteristics—and of the capacity to act a part with accomplished dissimulation. It indicates also much covetousness of property. That cruelty and the killing propensity are in the lower animals associated with craftiness is certain. It cannot be said that man is an exception. Gauls paribus, the more craftiness the more cruelty may be affirmed of human beings, as is testified by the savage races. Muller was crafty, and under this disguise lay hid the savage that under tempta tion predominated. But even if the head were free from the dangerous points, even if it were what could be called really well formed, no one understanding the duetrines of phrenology would venture to assert that there would be a necessary exemption from the liability to fall into vicious courses, and ultimately to commit a crime of the deepest dye. Organisaton of brain is very influential for good, or for evil. But so are external influences ; a, e., education in the widest sense of the term. Muller was naturally sym pathetic, conscientious, affectionate. obliging, regardful of reputation, humane. But to what extent did outer in fluences tend to nourish such dispositions " When," says the late Archbishop of Dublin, "Thurtell, the mut , derer, was executed, there was a shout of derision raised against the phrenologists for saying that his organ of Benevoleneelwas large. But they replied that there was also a large ' Destructiveness,' and a moral deficiency which would account for a man goaded to rage—by having been cheated out of almost all he had by the man he killed—committing that act, It is a remarkable confirmation of their view, that a gentleman who visited the prison where Thurtell was con fined, shortly after the execution, found the gaolers, &a., full of pity and affection for him. They said he was a kind, good-hearted fellow, and that they never had a prisoner whom they i egretted so much. And such seems to have been his natural character when not influenced at once by desire of revenge and of gain."—Annotations to Bacon. Like Thurtell, Muller was not a badly organised man ; far from it. By what infelicitous influences, internal and external, he came to be capable of committing so horrid a murder, who can say ? The head on the posterior region is strongly animalised, but the moral region, per se, is well developed superficially, though somewhat deficient in height us compared with its width. 1 have remarked in most of the heads of foreigners executed in England within the last 25 years a coarseness of skin approaching to the grain of the pig's skin. This is very visible in Muller. I have not seen the like in English heads. It suggests an inference affecting the quality of the brain, the general mental condition, and the brad of the man. The Lead is positively large, and is indicative of much bodily strength. Altogether, it is a study for the phrenologist, and it should serve as a caution against drawing hasty conclusions for or against from the celebral developments only. Phrenology affords to the adept in the science a most important basis for the study of character. It supplies facts of great value, and proclaims natural laws which before Dr. Gall's discoveries "lay hid in night." But the flippant presumption of many of its early amateur students has done more to give rise to misconception and distrust of the science than any opposi tion it has met with. That Muller should have gained the good-will of his acquaintances, and imposed on his re verend compatriot by professions of innocence, are facts in harmony with his organisation. The physiognomist would find in his mouth and chin au expressi,n more positive of its kind than his head presents. The strong love of appro bation and the love of children ascribed to him are borne out in his organisation, which indicates also a tendency to temperance in eating and drinking. Had he been brought up a soldier or sailor, it is probable that his in born capacity for deeds of violence would never have been illicitly manifested. He had that within him which admitted of a different career than the brief one so tragically ended. That Muller had an intellect of no mean sort is certain. So far as evil can be well done, it served him well all through. During his fearful voyage home it enabled him to allay by reading his fearful consciousness. He kept his counsel well, and was led into the error of giving the jeweller's box to the child by a social virtue—the inborn love of children. Hope buoyed him to the last moment of existence; when its whisperings ceased, the "still small voice" made itself im peratively audible, triumphing for the first time, though, doubtless, it never had ceased to exercise its sacred functions. The Explosion at Erith. THE VERDICT. Yesterday, the inquiry into the deaths caused by the explosion at Messrs Hall's stores in Erish marshes, was brought to a close atter many hours' inquiry, with the following verdict : _ " We find that the death of the persons (named in the inquisitions) was caused by an explosion of gunpowder, which originated on one of the barges belonging to Messrs Hall and Sons, which was unloading at the jetty of their magazine at Erith ; but how that explosion originated there was not any evidence to show." The Foreman (Capt. 1TKillop) said—Mr Coroner, the jury desire to make this addendum to their verdict:— " From the evidence that has been adduced before the jury they would respectfully call the attention of her Ma jesty's Government to the many serious omissions and im perfections of the present Acts of Parliament relating to the gunpowder trade, and would call attention to a few of the points on which immediate legislation is re quired. Firstly, the quantity of gunpowder stored in nay one place or neighbourhoo I, or any one powder magazine or railway train. Secondly, the construction and situa tion of magazines, their proximity to populous districts, to river walls, and other situations of danger, and to licens ing the same. Thirdly. The construction of barges and other vessels for the conveyance of gunpowder, and to the necessity of their having better distinguishing marks. Fourthly. The shipping and discharging of gunpowder generally. Fifthly. The importance of Government in• spection and supervision—the storing, placing. and convey ance of gunpowder. Sixthly. The practices relating to the infringement of the Acts of Parliament relating thereto The jury also expressed theirappreciation of the services of Sergeant Cox, and begged the coroner to forward their views to the proper quarter, which Mr Carttar said he would do. The inquiry then terminated. Course of Exchange,—Yesterdv. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 12 0 12 f Antwerp — 25 621 25 67k Brussels ,— 25 62k 25 671 Hamburg Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfurt on Maine — 1201 121 Vienna Trieste Petereburgh — 29.1 29/ Berlin — Madrid Cadiz — 461 47 Leghorn -- 26 85 25 90 M ilan .... .... Genoa 25 85 25 90 Naples Palermo — 26 871 25 921 Messina — 26 8 7i 25 92i Lisbon - 51 51h Oporto Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)..,...per oz, , £3 17 9 Mexican Dollar; TREASURE TROVE.—It may be remembered that two labouring men, when digging in a gravel pit at Stocker ston in June last, found a jar containing 62 gold coins, The coins were forwarded to the Treasury, On Tuesday last Mr Goodyer, the chief constable of the county, having re ceived instructions from the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, paid the fortunate finders the sum of £55 13s. Di,, being the value of the treasure,--Le i cester Journal, .0) CIO 1 I); towl,